Tobias Winright, PhD

Tobias Winright joined the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, where he holds the Hubert Mäder Endowed Chair, in March 2014. He moved to Saint Louis University in 2005 and is also Associate Professor of Theological Ethics in the Department of Theological Studies. Winright is a Roman Catholic moral theologian who possesses previous professional experience in law enforcement (corrections and policing) and lay ecclesial ministry (youth and campus ministry). His PhD in Moral Theology/Christian Ethics is from the University of Notre Dame, and his MDiv is from Duke Divinity School.

In connection with health care and bioethics, Winright's current areas of scholarly research include: theological ethics and face (focusing on issues involving face, such as cosmetic surgery and face transplants); a theo-political bioethics; the medicalization of the death penalty; post-war justice and wounded soldiers; the virtue of prudence, prudential judgment, and health care ethics; and revisiting the patient as person

For the Gnaegi Center, he teaches "Foundations in Catholic Health Care Ethics," "Health Care Ethics in the Catholic Tradition," and "Methods in Religious Ethics."

Winright is an active member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the College Theology Society, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics.

Prior to his move to Saint Louis University, he was Assistant Professor of Religion at Simpson College from 1998 to 2003 and Assistant Professor of Theology at Walsh University from 2003 to 2005.